The Collation

Artistic Fellow Camille Thomas shares how research at the Folger helps inform her play, Sweet Blood.

I made a zine inspired by the Folger Shakespeare Library’s collection (and you can too!). 

In a continuation of a series, a member of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network discusses what they’re reading and thinking about in their monthly Reading Group.

Fellow Roberta Kwan discusses Shakespeare and loving thy neighbor

Explore the (often biting) commentary that Victorian novelist Antony Trollope left in a copy of Marlowe’s plays.

An examination of Cleopatra’s racialized and sexualized queenship through the twinned theoretical frameworks of indigenous and queer conviviality

A behind the scenes look at the creation of a reproduction of one of the embroidered bindings on display in Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis.

This month’s Folger Mystery explores the reuse of a woodblock print as it was eaten away by worms.

Spot the difference in this month’s Folger mystery!

Fellow Douglas Clark delves into the contents of the previously overlooked manuscript, Thomas Grocer’s Banquet of Sweetmeats.

In a continuation of a series, a member of the RaceB4Race Mentorship Network discusses what they’re reading and thinking about in their monthly Reading Group.

In this solution to our September Folger Mystery, Erin Blake explains the reason for the blank pages in Folger STC 14933